Cold Spring is
one of those really special little villages
just waiting for you to turn off the road and
stop in for a visit. If your visit is a quick
one or if you stay for a while, you won't be
disappointed by what you will find and enjoy
in Cold Spring.

As one of the major
stops on the Metro-North trains, Cold Spring
is also one of the few of these special places
that is also extremely easy to get to. The tracks
quite literally divide the little village into
two distinct sections. As you descend onto the
platform, you are a very short walk from just
about everything and everywhere in Cold Spring.
This convenience of arrival makes Cold Spring
an ideal place for a quick weekend getaway from
the hectic urban city. Sweet little B&Bs
and exceptional Country Inns await you and invite
you for a luxurious experience. Renowned restaurants
and small cafes beckon you to sit and enjoy
a leisurely meal or languish over a glass of
wine and collection of tasty little treats.

Out on Main Street,
the shops and stores of Cold Spring are famous
for their contents. Long a primary location
for antiques in the Northeast, the shops of
Cold Spring have broadened their offerings to
include imported goods, artisan crafts and gifts
of every description and source. Many great
antique stores and consignment shops still abound
providing endless hours of browsing and shopping
fun. Pick up a birthday card for your mother,
a birdhouse for your Uncle Ted and a 19th century
armoire for your apartment all within steps
of each other.

Should you weary
of shopping, just up the hill and down the street
is the Foundry School Museum, an absolutely
charming museum as well as fascinating collection
of artifacts of the history of the area and
the local 18th century foundry industry of Cold
Spring. The foundries at Cold Spring crafted
the "Great Chains" strung across the
mighty Hudson River by General Washington during
the American Revolution to prevent British War
Ships from ascending the river and dividing
the colonies. The museum is small, extremely
well designed and presented and easily appreciated,
in our opinion one of the best small museums
in the entire Hudson Valley.

In the late afternoon,
make sure to wander down Main Street to the
river front and sit yourself down for a relaxing
sunset. Cold Spring is one of the very few rare
places in the Valley where you can actually
go down to the river and take it's majesty in.
As Cold Spring is located deep in the heart
of the Hudson Highlands, the scenic view from
the river front is marvelous. If you're lucky,
you'll be there during one of the many concerts
held in the bandstand on the river front Cold
Spring has preserved its river front and created
an inviting park filled with benches and railings
where you can sit in the cool breezes coming
off the river and enjoy the mountains with the
river carving its path between. To your left
behind the ridge across the Hudson is West Point,
to your right the mountains of the North Gate
of the Hudson Highlands dominate the river with
Newburgh and Beacon just beyond.

Cold Spring is a
special place, totally unique in the Hudson
Valley. It's not only exceptionally easy to
get to, it's not only exceptionally inviting
and welcoming to guests and visitors, it's also
one of the few remaining riverside hamlets that
has escaped commercial development and been
able to maintain and enrich its unique and distinctive
flavor. Drop in for a couple of hours or for
an weekend, you'll be very glad you did.